Cynthia Farrar (April 20, 1795, Marlborough, New Hampshire – January 25, 1862, Ahmednagar, India) was a Christian missionary from the United States of America.
She was one of the first single American women recruited as a missionary to work and live abroad.
[1] In 1826, the Marathi Mission of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions requested that a single female missionary be sent to Bombay, India to direct schools for girls there, thus relieving the wives of male missionaries of the task.
She departed the U.S. from Boston on June 5, 1827 as part of a missionary group bound for India.
Savitribai enrolled in an education and teacher training program and later began teaching small group of girls with the help of Farrar.